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FEATURED STORY As recession drags on, middle-class families forced to turn to Jewish food banks A growing number of formerly middle-class Jews is turning to Jewish food banks for help as the U.S. recession enters its third year.Read more »

EDITORS' PICKS Talking peace talks Nothing formal's been stated, but that doesn't mean folks can't opine on the Washington Middle East summit. Ron Kampeas has a roundup of what they're saying on JTA's Capital J blog. Hate on tape One of the suspects on trial in a plot to bomb New York City synagogues brags and reveals his hate in hours of recordings played in a Manhattan federal court. Germany and the Jewish gene Some say a German official is being unjustly vilified for writing in his book of a Jewish gene and that Muslim immigrants are making Germany "dumber." She should be a Bond girl Hollywood director Joel Schumacher talks about his life, his new film "Twelve" and one of his leading ladies, Israeli model Esti Ginzburg. Helping hand for Haiti Gideon Herscher, the JDC's representative in Haiti, writes about what it's like to work there and where some of the Jewish dollars in the earthquake-ravaged country are being spent.

JEWISH IDEAS DAILY Sponsored Content Cemetery Politics Zionism's enemies, whether of the ultra-Orthodox or the Arab variety, would sooner abuse the dead than abide the miraculous revival of the Jewish nation. Read more »

PR NEWS TICKER ADL Condemns Hamas For Murder Of Four Israelis In West Bank JAC Welcomes Direct Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks, US Involvement Share your news with JTA's readers and media partners. Click for details. BREAKING NEWS Israel would be willing to divide control over Jerusalem as part of a peace deal, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told an Israeli newspaper. Hundreds attended the funerals of four Israelis killed in an attack by a Palestinian faction trying to scuttle the start of peace talks. The Obama administration is backing a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meet every two weeks during peace talks. A prison can require an Orthodox Jewish prison inmate to keep his beard short, a federal judge ruled. A Boston television station is holding the initial Massachusetts gubernatorial debate on the first night of Rosh Hashanah. A settlers' umbrella group has announced that it will unilaterally end the West Bank construction moratorium in response to the terrorist attack near Hebron. A French high school teacher was suspended for spending too much class time on the Holocaust. Jewish leaders in Melbourne have severed ties with the city's major broadsheet newspaper over its treatment of Israel. Two Arab teenagers from eastern Jerusalem were arrested in the beating death of a 60-year-old Jewish American man. A new campaign is promoting Yom Kippur as a day to disconnect from technology.